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Re:Ask HN: Are some signup CAPTCHAs becoming a bit ridiculou... by shubhamjain on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:29PM (#7805647)
This is like saying we should stop locking our doors because every door can be broken by a locksmith anyway. The purpose of captcha is not to break any attempts of automation but only to make it more harder. Considering that automating a script to break captcha with human intelligence / automation is not trivial by any means I think, they serve their purpose.
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Re:Ask HN: Are some signup CAPTCHAs becoming a bit ridiculou... by Xenmen on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:20PM (#7807882)
The issue is that, given a little more time, we'll see a "one-size-fits-all" captcha breaker, one that needs little to no modification to break the captcha on new sites.
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Re:Ask HN: Are some signup CAPTCHAs becoming a bit ridiculou... by krapp on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @07:49PM (#7807600)
A captcha is better than nothing.
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